The Fulginiti Pavilion Gallery has a unique mission of presenting art in a way that brings deeper understanding of the body and mind to the students and faculty who pass through the building, headquarters for the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Eric Schwartz’ “Tattoo Nation,” currently on display, fits right in, taking the concept of art-and-body literally. The show features Schwartz’ photographs of people inked up in “black and grey” tattoos, a style that originated within the Chicano pachuco gang culture of Texas and Arizona.

The body art is serious and impressive and Schwartz’ work explores its deeper meaning as “a reclamation and reappropriation of the body, an affirmation of group identity and solidarity, a spiritual “manifesto” proclaiming the bearers deepest beliefs and aspirations, and an iconographically essentialized form of autobiography.”

Schwartz, who works in still and moving images, made a corresponding documentary on tattoo culture, also called “Tattoo Nation” and the gallery will screen it at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and again at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. It’s a rare opportunity to see how the two art forms complement and contrast.

It’s all free. The exhibit is up through Dec. 19 and the Gallery is located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, 13080 E. 19th Ave., Aurora.